Archive for July, 2009
We Have To Add The Value
You may have watched the video of the Dean who explained his rationale for removing computers from the classrooms at his school. His primary concern was that faculty would simply show PowerPoint slides and deliver boring lectures to accompany them. While I don’t entirely agree with his perspectives on the merits of teaching “naked”, [...]
Posted by StevenB on July 28th, 2009 under Higher Education, Teaching.
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Faculty Blog Round-Up: Writing Books
At the peak of summer, many faculty are in deep research mode, especially with longer projects, like books, that require the kind of travel or in-depth work they can’t schedule during the semester. Here’s an overview of the book-writing process from the inside
Dr. Crazy, an anonymous literature professor, is beginning to ponder her topic.
Anthropologist Auto [...]
Posted by Laura Wimberley on July 24th, 2009 under Books, Faculty, Peer Review, Research Issues, Scholarly Communications.
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Something Is Better Than Nothing
As you read and learn more about design a basic principle appears again and again. Design for simplicity. In fact one hallmark of great design is that it makes the complex simple. That said, as Garr Reynolds put it in a recent presentation, simplicity should not be confused with simplistic. Simplistic is about dumbing things [...]
Posted by StevenB on July 22nd, 2009 under Information Literacy, Simplicity vs. Complexity.
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I’ll Take the Humanities for Ten Thousand
Jennifer Howard of the Chron (subscription required) offers a preview of a study commissioned by the National Humanities Alliance and funded by Mellon which looked at the back office costs of flagship journals published by scholarly societies (many of them in the social sciences, oddly) and concluded that they actually cost more than STM journals. [...]
Posted by Barbara Fister on July 20th, 2009 under Idiocy, Open Access, Research Issues, Scholarly Communications.
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Your ACRL Conference Planning Team
An enormous amount of work goes into planning the ACRL National Conference. No sooner does one end then the cycle of planning starts again for the next one. At ALA the 2011 conference planning committee had its first official meetings. We first met with members of the 2009 planning group for a debriefing session. Then [...]
Posted by StevenB on July 17th, 2009 under ACRL News.
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